Faridun Bhullar

Faridun Bhullar (28 October 1960-3 June 2008) was a member of the Taliban.

Biography
Faridun Bhullar was born on 28 October 1960 in Kandahar, Afghanistan to a family of Sunni Muslim Pashtuns, and he fought alongside the Mujahideen against the Soviet Union in the 1980s during the Soviet-Afghan War. Bhullar joined the Taliban of Mohammed Omar after the war, and he fought in the Afghan Civil War against the Northern Alliance. He was useful to Omar as a liaison with al-Qaeda, and he helped to secure sanctuaries for al-Qaeda and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan in the country. In 2001, the United States invaded Afghanistan, and Bhullar decided to stay in the country and organize resistance to the Soviets. On 3 June 2008 he was killed in a NATO airstrike in Helmand Province on his vehicle.